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Chapter 3: Week 24 progress

Hello again!

Hope everyone is well!  Sorry for the late post but it's Thanksgiving in Canada so I had some family stuff today.

Not a lot to report this week.  Mostly, I'm just keeping my head down and getting as much done as I can.  I finished a couple of animations, a handful of renders, and a good chunk of scripting so progress is still good.  I'd say I'm still about 3.5-4 weeks from finishing so I'm gonna leave the games ETA at a month for this week.  A...

Chapter 3: Week 23 progress

Hello again!

As some may remember, I mentioned that the final scene was technically 6 scenes as there are a lot of varying paths involved.   After deciding to cut back on the final split scene last week, I'm happy to announce that I should have 4/6 of those scenes finished by tonight.

Now, that being said, I did finally remember that I had another fork in the story, and sadly it's a bit vital to certain romantic variables, so it's not something I can really ski...

Chapter 3: Week 22 progress

Hello again, Homelanders!

So, given my lack of time and energy recently, I've decided to scale back certain parts of the final scene.  Frankly, I've been a little over-zealous with this chapter already, and now that I'm nearing the finish line, my patience is wearing about as thin as yours surely is!  Scaling back on the final split-scenes should shave a decent chunk of time off of development and shouldn't affect the intended impact of said scenes.<...

Chapter 3: Week 21 progress

Hey Homelanders!

Full disclosure:  My job kicked my ass this past week and it doesn't look like this next week is going to be any better.  I work in a factory and we're back in the busy season so I just wasn't able to get much done.  Still, I tried my best to crap out some renders every day before and after work, but as far as scripting I didn't really make any progress.  I'm sorry!  I promise that I'm trying my best!

Anyways, I'm too tired to think of an...

Chapter 3: Week 20 progress

Hey Homelanders!

Another week, another progress report..  Surprise, surprise!

I've been doing my best to keep a steady pace with development, and for the most part I think I've succeeded.  Unfortunately, my job has been dropping a lot more on my plate recently so it's starting to get a little difficult to keep up.  I'm still plugging away at it as much as I can but with everything going on it's starting to get more difficult.  Fear not!  I know I...

Chapter 3: Week 19 progress

Hey Homelanders!

I've been grinding out some renders this week, all while testing the completed content to refine the script, replace bad renders, and layer in some new music and SFX.  Overall I'm very happy with my progress this past week.  I'm really excited for people to try the new content, and hopefully, anyone replaying the older chapters notices the slight improvements to the overall experience.

I'm still trying to wrap up the final scenes in chapter 3.  &nb...

Chapter 3: Week 18 progress

Hey Homelanders!

There's not a lot to report this week.  Honestly! 

I worked at my other job all week, wasted a couple of days trying to figure out some coding that was apparently never going to work, and spent the weekend cleaning and relaxing.  I haven't really taken any significant time off from the game since I started development and I kept hitting a wall, so I just had to step away from everything and enjoy a couple of days with less...

Visual changes to text

Hey all,
I remembered bonus content this week!!! YAY!  

Anyways, I was messing around with some text settings, trying out some different formats for character dialogue.  While I may already have my favorite in mind, I wanted to do an unbiased poll to see what the Patreons think.  

Option 1 is the standard, unaltered text, and the following options are all variations of color-coordinated and black borders on both the character names and dialogue....

Chapter 3: Week 17 progress

Hey Homelanders!

Hope everyone is well!  No crazy long post today, just a few notes this time around!

I've been spending a lot of time testing the game this week.  I actually started testing from the prologue in order to touch up, edit, and add more audio design to the earlier chapters as well.  I've already made some changes to the already released content, but that will all be detailed in my devlog when the next update launches.

One thing I've noticed while...

Chapter 3: Week 16 progress

Hey Homelanders!
I hope everyone had a good week and is ready for another wordy update!

This week has been heavily dedicated to testing the finished components of the game and patching up any holes in the coding.  Also still a lot of incomplete patches of the game, some of which I completely forgot about until going to test them.  No big deal, this is a normal part of the process, as I've experienced it.  A few script lines here, and a couple renders there.  No s...

Chapter 3: Week 15 progress

Hey Homelanders!

Another week of keeping my head down and trying to grind out as much progress as possible.  I just finished up the 2nd-to-last scene as I'm typing this report, so my next task (While continuing to pump out renders) is to start testing as much as possible.  I still have no clue how long it will take but I'll continue to keep everyone as informed as possible.

Please keep in mind that I still have the final (massive) scene to render out, a handful of repla...

Gold-tier chapter 3 teaser

You may not know who this is yet, but hopefully, you're as excited to meet her as she is to meet you! Just a little teaser for some fun pla

You may not know who this is yet, but hopefully, you're as excited to meet her as she is to meet you!

Just a little teaser for some fun planned in chapter 3.  

Much love!
JB

Chapter 3: Week 14 progress

Hey Homelanders!

Week 14 already!?  Good Goddess!  Time is flying too quickly!

I'm still progressing at a steady pace and unless something changes, I only have 2 scenes left to render.  Although, full transparency, one of those scenes is kind of massive!  It could technically be considered 6 scenes in terms of production, since it has 3 alternate versions, and will also have 3 varying side-scenes within it.  However, I think it'll be a great ending for ch...

Instant regret

Sabrina and Ariana are seriously reconsidering their decision to accept Miranda and Cordelia's invitation to play volleyball!  They expected a friendly game.  However, the girls failed to consider the extreme competitiveness of the two hardened soldiers!  

These ladies are definitely going to need some backup for round 2!

Chapter 3: Week 13 progress

Hey Homelanders! 

Hope everyone is staying safe in this crazy weather.  It’s been kind of brutal in my region, as it has been in a lot of places, but I kept a steady pace and managed to finish most of the script.  I ended up adding a whole new conversation to one of the scenes and still wrapped up the majority of the final scene as well. So while I’m sure I’ll still be working to improve it, it is for all intents and purposes, a finished script.

Rendering, on ...

Patreon tiers poll #2

Hey all!

As I mentioned last time, there's another idea I've been mulling over regarding the Patreon rewards.  This would be a pretty big shakeup so please make sure you understand the options and answer honestly.

I'm not sure if I would proceed with this unless a majority voted for the same option, but we'll see how things go.  This poll is mostly just to test the waters and see what people's opinions would be, so please comment with any suggestions or concerns.

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Chapter 3: Week 12 progress

Hey Homelanders! 

I'm still plugging away at chapter 3 between my regular job shifts and I think I'm still making steady progress.  All of the scenes have been fully scripted apart from the same one I mentioned last week, but I have the framework for the whole thing finished, so it shouldn't be a problem to write once I get a chance to sit down and script again.  I have every confidence that I'll have the whole script finished by the next report.  Apart from the inev...

Patreon tiers poll

Please note: I will never make any changes to Patreon tiers without giving Patreons at least a few weeks of advanced notice, if not, a full month!

As mentioned in the most recent progress report, there are some changes to the reward tiers that I've been mulling over for some time now.  While I'm sure the Copper and bronze tiers won't mind this first idea at all, I'm very interested to hear some feedback from the Silver tiers and above 2022-07-14 23:15:59 +0000 UTC View Post